Welcome to amateur hour. As reported yesterday, The Wall Street Journal claimed in a story that Toyota’s “data recorders can lose their information if disconnected from the car’s battery or if the battery dies—as could happen after a crash.” Their source was “a person familiar with the situation.” Commentator Carquestions concluded that the source doesn’t know what he or she is talking about. After we wrote about it, Carquestions fingered the not so knowledgeable source as “a secretary within Media Relations at the DOT.”
Instead of talking to a secretary, the WSJ could have done what we did: Call Toyota headquarters in Tokyo. (Read More…)
Posted in Government, Japan, News Blog, Safety, Toyota
Tagged as Bertel Schmitt, EDR, Event Data Recorder, jalopnik, Japan, Just-auto, NHTSA, Toyota, WSJ
Tagged as Bertel Schmitt, EDR, Event Data Recorder, jalopnik, Japan, Just-auto, NHTSA, Toyota, WSJ
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